The MLG Team


Anthony L. Miele, Esq. - Managing Attorney and Principal
Practice Areas: Technology Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Art and Entertainment Law

A lifetime of involvement in technology, artisanship, and the arts. In college, Tony majored in electrical engineering. Throughout high school and college, Tony also studied guitar and music theory with a private instructor. He also enjoyed drawing with pen, pencil, charcoal, and airbrush. While in college, he earned money creating designs for individuals and businesses, and produced murals and signs on fleet trucks, automobiles, and retail store windows.

Tony comes from a family with a rich history in and appreciation for the arts, artisanship, and technology. His uncle is an architect; his grandfather studied drawing and designed precision instruments for Gillette, and his great grandfather, an Italian immigrant, was a blacksmith, hobby winemaker, and inventor. His cousin attended Berklee College of Music with a full scholarship, and enjoys a profession where he performs in a wide range of venues playing tenor and baritone sax.

Tony spends his spare time with his family frequently attending a sporting event of one of his children. He also enjoys creative writing, and studying martial arts, including Kenpo, Kajukenbo, and Aikido.

Legal experience - corporate and employment law, intellectual property, and disputes. A former partner with a national law firm having offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Washington, DC, and New York, Tony has handled numerous matters before the US Patent and Trademark Office and the US Copyright Office, a division of the Library of Congress. He managed and settled various disputed matters involving complex licensing or intellectual issues.

Tony periodically attends seminars and conferences to sharpen his advocacy skills. He has successfully completed several trial advocacy programs offered by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He also attended the intensive fourteen week program offered by Judge William G. Young, District Judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, for mastery of trial techniques and the law of trial evidence, both state and federal.

Technology familiarity. Over the years, Tony has become adept at understanding and working with a wide variety of technologies, including, recreational vehicles; aeronautics; electronics; optics; medical devices; computer software and hardware; document processing technology; machine vision; wireless technologies; and embedded technologies.

Business experience. His business experience is diverse. He has helped lead large and small/startup organizations, and he has also started his own small businesses. Starting and running new businesses is another area where one finds a strong tradition in Tony's family. His father and brother have each successfully started, grown, and run several small businesses. In the early 1990s, Tony helped establish and manage Weinstein & Miele, a Washington, DC area intellectual property law firm. He later served as Vice President and General Counsel of an enterprise resource planning software company.

In various settings, Tony was exposed to cash management, marketing, sales, operations, product design, team selection and leadership, and execution of revenue and profit plans.

Negotiations and deals. Tony has led negotiations in legal disputes, and in a wide range of business deals.

Books, papers. Tony has authored two business books concerning patent strategy (including Patent Strategy, Wiley & Sons, Inc., Copyright 2000), and numerous published papers and articles about varied intellectual property issues.

Tony received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Western New England College in 1987, and his Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1993. He started his legal career as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, DC from 1987 to 1989. He was then admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1990, and to the Virginia State Bar in 1993. Tony is in the process of applying for admission to the Massachusetts Bar.

Janet P. Sistare, Esq. - Of Counsel
Practice Areas: Technology Litigation

Since her admission to the bar in 1988, Janet has been a civil litigator and trial lawyer, representing insurance companies and businesses in state, federal and appellate courts, as well as in independent and inter-company arbitrations and mediations. Her litigation practice has included representation of numerous insurance companies in: insurance subrogation matters for property and casualty claims, commercial property claims arising out of catastrophic fire losses, and products liability claims; first party defense of insurance carriers for bad faith claims; representation of carriers in investigation of arson and fraud claims; third party defense of carriers for personal injury, motor vehicle, and other claims; and providing legal opinions on coverage question issues, including environmental law and pollution claims.

Janet has also represented businesses in real estate transactions and foreclosures; in corporate filings; in financing transactions; and in the preparation of estate and estate tax documents.

Janet was a Partner with Blackburn & Sistare from 1991 to 1996, and with Moller, Peck & O'Brien, L.L.C., from 1997 to 1999, and a member of the Massachusetts and Connecticut Bar Associations, as well as a member of the DRI, Defense Research Institute, Insurance Law Committee. She served as Co-chairperson of the Hartford County Bar Association, Small Firms Committee (1999-2000), and as a Faculty Memeber of the Connecticut Trial Advocacy Seminar (1999). She was awarded a BV rating by Martindale Hubbell in 2000. In 2000, Janet took a temporary leave of absence to raise her young son and daughter. She has returned to practice in an "of counsel" position with Miele Law Group PC.

Janet received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in History and Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts / Amherst in 1985. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the Western New England College School of Law in 1988. She was admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania in 1988, and in Connecticut in 1989.

Sandra Felder - Paralegal and Assistant to Managing Attorney
Sandy is a paralegal, with several years of experience handling all administrative aspects of an intellectual property practice. Sandy has experience filing and maintaining patent portfolios; managing, reviewing and attending to incoming correspondences and court and administrative mailings; and administering the docketing computer system to ensure timely responses to deadlines.

Scott Lebeda - Media Industry Consultant
Scott assists the firm with marketing and various information technology (IT) issues, and, for select art and entertainment matters, he serves as our resident "subject matter expert."

Scott is a filmmaker and an artist. See, e.g., www.scottlebeda.com. He has produced many works, involving creative writing, photography, filmmaking, and web design.

Scott received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television from the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2005, and his Associate of Applied Science in Computer Graphics from Mercer County Community College in 2003.

Alecia Jean Orsini - Media Industry Consultant
Alecia Jean assists the firm with marketing and event planning, and, for select art and entertainment matters, she serves as our resident "subject matter expert."

Alecia Jean is a filmmaker and artist. See, e.g., www.aleciajeanorsini.com. She has produced many works, involving creative writing and filmmaking.

Alecia Jean received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television from the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2006.

Behind-The-Scenes
We would be remiss if we did not mention members of our team that remain behind-the-scenes, but that provide assistance when it is most needed, whether it be on a regular scheduled basis, or during those emergencies when we need late night or weekend assistance. Dana handles all our document processing needs and various paralegal tasks. Michelle and Sally take care of our finance department. Scott prepares formal drawings for our patent clients. Tim and Diana are our always-reliable information technology/networking gurus.